GRUB problem - not booting PCLOS Gnome

[ciki022]

Hi,
Until now I used several OS-es on my PC ( Xp, W7, W2003 Server SBS, OSX, PCLOS 2009 ), booting them with GRUB for DOS, without any problems.
Now I installed PCLOS 2010 Gnome, everything went well, new GRUB was properly instaled, booting linux and windows fine.
I recreated my old GRUB, copied boot lines from new to old GRUB menu.lst file, and I can not boot PCLOS anymore ( other OS-es are booting ), with message "File error or ....... ( I dont remember the rest ).

I would appreciate any ideas.

[Old-Polack]

Hi,
Until now I used several OS-es on my PC ( Xp, W7, W2003 Server SBS, OSX, PCLOS 2009 ), booting them with GRUB for DOS, without any problems.
Now I installed PCLOS 2010 Gnome, everything went well, new GRUB was properly instaled, booting linux and windows fine.
I recreated my old GRUB, copied boot lines from new to old GRUB menu.lst file, and I can not boot PCLOS anymore ( other OS-es are booting ), with message "File error or ....... ( I dont remember the rest ).

I would appreciate any ideas.

When you remember the error, let us know. It's the only clue we have to work from.

[ciki022]

Yes, I copied entire boot line, and line contains UUID=

[ciki022]

Error 2 : Bad file or directory type

Menu.lst lines from new GRUB are :
title linux
kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=291207a7-c625-96d3-5944-c0cf3959678a  acpi=on resume=UUID=b3d74c1e-b94c-4ffa-81c3-aa428d42bc3c vga=788
initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd.img

I copied that to my old GRUB menu.lst file and receive mentioned error code

Probably You dont need any other lines from my menu.lst because other OS-es works well

[ciki022]

I checked that and it is OK, continuous, no breaks.

[ciki022]

yes, and it was working until I reinstaled my old GRUB and added new lines to my old menu.lst file from new menu.lst.
Maybe my old GRUB for DOS does not recognise new partition ?

[ciki022]

I tried several times to reinstall GRUB, and didnt succeed.
Conclusion is that If I load kernel directly from my old GRUB ( which stage files are on small primary FAT32 partition ), PCLOS doesnt boot
But, If I install PCLOS GRUB to a PCLOS partition (hd0,9) and then do next

"root (hd0,9)
chainloader +1
boot"

that loads GRUB from hd0,9 and successfuly loads the kernel and PCLOS

That is solution, but I am qurious whay I can not directly load kernel and initrd.


 


 

[ciki022]

I tried with root=/dev/hda10 resume=/dev/hda11, also with sda, but not working, I get same error
 

[menotu]

Just a thought: Have you tried using "Redo MBR"? which is in the Main KMenu > More Applications > Configuration > Redo MBR.

Note: I have no idea whether this works with 3rd party grub tools